Mobile Spark is a mobile agency focused on the Southeast Asian market growth opportunities and scalability in digital and mobile mediums. The company offers consulting, services and products for omni-channel mobile solutions and word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing.

Ville Kulmala

Director - Mobile Spark

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● 16+ years in technical and leadership roles for leading consulting companies, software vendors, as well as, for striving high growth tech companies and VC’s.

● Strong history of developing new markets for software in emerging and developed Asian ecosystems. Managed successfully new business growth of multi-million dollar business in highly competitive Asian - in established players and new entrants.

● Excellent analytical, technical and management skillset, a bright social person with a clear understanding of wider business and strategic implications of a technology.

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Experience

Mobile Monday Thailand

Chairman

Dec 2010 – Present

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Chairman for a leading mobile industry platform in Southeast Asia, having thousands of regional members from companies, startups, media, visionaries, universities, students, agencies, telecom operators, Internet companies, mobile manufacturers, developers, designers and highly influential individuals. Purpose to connect local players to the region, and vice versa.

Platform aim is to foster neutral cooperation through live prestigious networking events having 250-350 professionals to share ideas and discuss trends from both local and global markets. Events are held in a high level conference style with 4-5 star luxury hotel as a venue in CBD. Presentations are moderated to be educational and inspirational presentations (strictly no sales pitches).

Past speakers/sponsors include: Samsung, Amazon, Google, Huawei, LivingSocial, Vserv, Inmobi, Nokia, RIM, Admob, Buzzcity and more. A mix of local and regional participants. All events are translated live to Thai and English. Live web video stream of events is also available real-time, gathering over 150 viewers around the world per event.

Company's main product is enterprise class end-to-end platform for communication and process management - used by +2500 organizations worldwide - key clientèle are major banks, insurance and telecommunication companies.

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Selected role deliverables:

● Head Asian market development and execution for Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore - market verticals: Banking, Insurance and Telecoms.● Consult regional CIO's, CDO's and CTO's on how to leapfrog enterprise infrastructure to digital and mobile mediums.● Innovate mobile solutions for end to end messaging scenarios with WeChat, LINE, Facebook and chatbots.● Develop digital and mobile solutions for banking and insurance sectors (fintech/insurtech) in APAC landscape. Solutions includes: digital, Machine Learning / AI, mobile, messaging, social media, e-channel, workflow automation.● Create solutions to transform digitally corporate legacy enterprise infrastructure to omni-channel (traditional and digital) - including web, mobile and messaging.● Delivering next generation document, capture and output management proposals.● Align team to focus to work collaborative on new offerings and client projects.● Responsible for a stellar APAC market growth on new digital and mobile solutions.● Technical solutioning for marketing, omni-channel communication, outbound-inbound correspondence. Topics digital transformation, mobile, messaging, omni-channel and legacy connectivity.● Manage and push marketing for Asian markets - deliver four large user conferences in the region.● Manage complex set of client and company internal stakeholders to spearhead company product, solutions and marketing innovation forward in APAC.

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Advocacy (Shanghai)

Director scalability & partnerships

2013 – 2014

Shanghai, China

Advocacy is a word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing agency based in Shanghai, with offices in Southeast Asia and India. Company is the most awarded word-of-mouth agency in the world.

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Responsible for managing and delivering digital & mobile marketing brand campaigns. Working across client projects in China, Southeast Asia and EU to improve scalability of the product and the business model.

Eco Consumer Services is a Social CRM company based in Austin, US and in Singapore. Company’s core product is a real-time consumer opinion management and social monitoring platform suited for diverse B2B verticals. The company is 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Global Winner. Clients include prominent brands from the US, Canada and Asia (Hilton, Radisson, Holiday Inn, DoubleTree, P&G, Swiss Belhotel and Pan Pacific).

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Responsibilities:● Analyse, recommend and execute product and strategy roadmaps for the business.● Govern company activities as a part the management team.● Planning and execution of mobile and web content syndication and word-of-mouth marketing push components to social media.● Product and client relationship management.● Oversee key partnerships and lead third party integrations toward global technology companies such as Micros.● Management of in-house and outsourced resources to deliver technical and functional change using Agile / Scrum methods.● Advocate easy wins to rollout new product lines for increased volume, content syndication and revenue.

● Management of an experienced creative team to deliver digital branding campaign against tight timelines, working with virtual team across Singaporean and Japanese client locations, as well as, third party technical team located in China. Agile / Scrum delivery management.

CardFed

Managing Director

2009 – 2013

Amsterdam - Helsinki - Hong Kong

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Responsible for key day-to-day operations of the business, including, but not limited to:

● Establishing strategic partnerships, financial management, business development, strategy creation, business analysis, fundraising and product development.● Talent acquisition and management of a team of seasoned ex–Accenture resources and leading agency personas from EU and Asia.● Managed delivery of a full-scale web and mobile word–of–mouth marketing platform from idea generation to design, development, design, marketing, execution, and sale of the product to leading global brands.● Led a global team of ten experienced resources located in three continents (vendors located in EU, US, and Asia). Management of technical delivery using Lean and Agile - Scrum approach.● Delivery of B2C and B2B cross-platform mobile marketing platform using sophisticated algorithms to do brand advertisement through offline (print) and online interfaces such as Facebook Open Graph.● Successful delivery of two complex platforms, mobile and web.● Successful business development having signed leading global travel luxury brands such as Sofitel and Sentosa.● A reference mobile marketing showcase in conferences from Hong Kong to Singapore (story featured in global media in the US and EU).

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Accenture Consulting

Senior Management Consultant2006 – 2009

Location: Global / Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 261,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.

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● Executed senior technology management roles in project and program management, while delivering successfully projects against expectations.● Managed complex telecoms and finance related system integration and migration projects.● Worked together with clients C-level contacts while delivering strategic change in client organisations.

Strong delivery record from clients such as:

● Areva - Paris - Leading global (nuclear) energy conglomerate● ING Investment Management - The Netherlands - Global investment bank● Fortis - Brussels - Global bank● Heineken International - Amsterdam - One of the largest brewers in the world● BCI - Chile - The largest bank in Chile● Royal Bank of Scotland - London City - The largest bank in the world back in 2008

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Heineken International (Accenture)

senior Business Consultant (sap ERP / MANAGEMENT REPORTING)

2009

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Heineken is the number one brewer in Europe and number three (by volume) worldwide.

The project was a large (~90 consultants) SAP finance reporting implementation program to consolidate client’s 240 operating companies around the world.

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● Part of Program Steering Committee working together with Program Director to manage release and workstream activities/issues/risks against key KPI’s.● Headed Program Management Office (PMO) and its resources.● QPI liaison for the project – complete QPI (quality process) review for the program.● Led MS project EMP server implementation project – including finance reporting/billing.

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AREVA (Accenture)

Senior Business Consultant (Treasury system)2008

Paris Area, France

Areva is French multinational industrial conglomerate. Areva is the world leader in offering solutions for nuclear and energy industry.

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Areva is a French multinational industrial conglomerate and the world leader in providing nuclear and energy industry solutions.

● Managed project team to deliver a full business analysis and scoping for Wall Street Systems treasury platform implementation.● Headed Accenture’s functional implementation project team consisting of 8 international technical and business consultants from Accenture and vendors.● Successful delivery of full requirement gathering and the functional business analysis phase of the project. Particularly demanding client requirements as broad spectrum of investment products was being delivered.● High performance delivery despite culturally and politically challenging client and vendor landscape.

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BCI (Accenture)

Senior Business Consultant (Treasury system)2008

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) is one of the largest banks in Chile.

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● Delivery of Wallstreet Suite treasury platform to support Front, Middle, Back Office, Risk and Accounting function of the bank's treasury business.● Due to the exotic Chilean local regulatory requirements, proposed solution was relatively complex in functionality; nevertheless, adequate for client to meet their high expectations.● Head of Customer Specific Development (CSD) workstream to deliver custom solutions meet the Chilean local regulatory demands to support bank's trading activities.● Responsible for hiring of external SME’s to deliver the work.● Improvement of business and delivery processes.

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ABN AMRO Global Markets / HBU (Accenture)

Senior Business Consultant (Capital Markets system)2007

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Responsible for managing Murex trading platform migration for front and back office trading of FX Option and Precious Metal Option. Over 40 stakeholders and team members spread out on global client locations.

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Main activities:● Responsible individually for the management of the project and the global client relationships.● Complete migration of Murex Precious Metal and FX - Front and Back Office.● Delivery of numerous interfaces towards systems such as Adaptiv, MRTK, CMIS4, Pnl Reporting and FRS.● Functional Analysis and planning of the internal and external resources.● Analysis on the key Precious Metal business decisions for the London City based front office.● Managing communication between technical team and client management.● Functional system analysis, business process improvement, UAT (User Acceptance Test) planning and delivery.

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Logica (LogicaCMG)

Senior Consultant

2000 – 2006

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Logica (LogicaCMG) was one of the largest business and technology consulting companies in Europe with currently over 70,000 staff in over 40 countries.

Working with Logica’s key clients around Europe on Telecommunication and Finance related projects. Top performer in variety of roles from technology expert to business analysis to management.

Delivery of technical and functional solutions to improve performance of business-critical trading activities in front office and back office. Worked with the treasury-trading platform Finance Kit (Wall Street Systems).

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Delivered number of custom solutions (functional & technical) for the client:

Finland’s largest payment card solutions company, issuer and acquirer of most credit card and debit card transactions in Finland.

The project boilerplate - A complete delivery of a card transaction switch for the country of Finland.

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● Functional system expert working together with a medium sized, yet very efficient, global project team to meet client's high set of technical standards.● Delivering a full Oasis IST Switch solution to the client.● Management of communication and delivery between the vendor, client and team members, in 3 continents.● Functional analysing & testing, card payment expertise; MasterCard, EuroCard, Visa, Certifications, Swift messaging, Card switching.● EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) standardization, as part of a team that created the EMV standard.

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Essent Energy (LogicaCMG)

SENIOR EAI Consultant

2002

The Netherlands

Challenging role for a largest energy provider in the Netherlands. Developing and designing middleware components using Java, Tibco and Oracle products in Unix environment. Responsible of the design and development of a large scale EAI solutions.

KPN Telecoms (LogicaCMG)

Senior EAI Consultant – TIE Project (The Netherlands)2001

The Netherlands

At the time one of the first and leading Java / Tibco Middleware implementations in the Europe. Development was done in UNIX environment using low-level Java, Tibco, Oracle, EDA, LDAP. The novel middleware solution was designed, developed and delivered within the tight deadline. One of the Tibco and LogicaCMG reference stories for the year 2001.

S1 Corporation

Consultant (fintech)

2000

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

S1 (Security First Technologies) was one of the most prominent Internet companies during the 1999 dot-com boom. The company offered Internet solutions to financial sector as fintech company, and was selected to the Fortune e-50 index (1999), composing the leading Internet companies in the world together with Amazon, AOL, eBay, Yahoo and Priceline.com.

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Worked as a Consultant to the European product development center in Rotterdam (and Brussels) during the year 2000, right in the middle of the dot-com mayhem.

Only couple of months after being fully trained by S1, the US based company decided to shutdown all their European operations due to the dotcom meltdown. All European employees were effectively terminated.

At the height of the dotcom bubble, S1 stock price was at 129 USD (Nasdaq: SONE). When EU operations were shutdown at the end of the year 2000, the stock price stood at 5 USD.

Personally and professionally this was a very intense period, nevertheless, it was a good experience to witness such a key moment in the history of tech from within one of the leading Internet companies.

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Nokia Siemens Networks (eNiklas / Niklas Data)

BIG DATA Consultant (SAS - big data)

1997 – 2000

Helsinki, Finland

Worked as a Consultant for Nokia during the period when company was literally taking over the world with mobile phones.

● Developed one of the first web mobile applications in Europe using Internet-enabled prototype Nokia mobile phones (the "Matrix" phone), a client-server web 1.0 solution. Reference story for SAS and Nokia.